C Am G F
I said to you on the night that we met, "I am not well
C Am G F
Our habits secrete to the sidewalk and street, our civic hell
C Am G F
We covet the dark, share a cab to the park and you let me
C Am
Speak of bearings undone, silver hair in the sun
G F C F
We are only 30% dead and our parents go to sleep early
C F C F G
We destroy all of our esteem and the sunlight starts to shine through the trees
C Am G F x2
C Am G F
The noise on this block keeps my mind interlocked and unfastened
C Am G F
We struggle shed skin, heavy breath is a deadly assassin
C Am G F
My sister's eyes flood like rivers or wine in your absence
C Am
So we echo each song to which you'd sing along
G F
A surrogate hymn and we'll sing it again
C F
And we'll smoke til our pockets are empty
G F
A person cannot live without sleep
C F
And you can't hold up a story so heavy
G
We tell it so rarely
C F
And in this place I think about you
C F
The spirits and veins that you run through
C F
And in this place I think about you